Fidel Castro is a man with a great sense of self-criticism and respect for his political friends. He is not going to give me instructions, and I am not the type of man who would take them. That's not to say that I don't approve of what is happening in Cuba, but he would never send me a letter telling me what to do or not to do.

I still believe in what I believed in for 20 years as a Socialist in Parliament, and being a Socialist is not the same as being a utopian.

If the U.S. is going to defend itself, why shouldn't we do the same? We only want to be treated equally, nothing more.

People can come and see me, and I have the pleasure of being able to talk to them.

Only an organized and conscious people can bring about a different kind of society.

The Popular Unity government represented the first attempt anywhere to build a genuinely democratic transition to socialism - a socialism that, owing to its origins, might be guided not by authoritarian bureaucracy, but by democratic self-rule.

People can progress only by working and producing more.